The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-10-27

The general assembly Of the knights
of Labor adjourned at Minneapolis on
the 10Th. ALI business was disposed Of
and the eleventh assembly has the record
of accomplishing more than any of its
predecessors.
Eleven detective officers at Moscow
have been found guilty of conniving at
the crimes of notorious robbers. Five of
them have been sentenced to hard labor
in the mines of Siberia, and the others to
various terms of Imprisonment.
The presidential party got back to
Washington Saturday morning. The
president and Mrs. Cleveland took an
early breakfast at the White House and
then drove out to their country home,
Oak View, where they spent the day.
About midnight Friday night mob
of eighteen men attacked the jail at Del
phi, Ind, took out Amer Green who was
confined and waiting trial for the abduc-
ton and murder of Lulu Mabbitt, and
lynched him about seven miles from
town.
A gale swept over the entire lake re-
gion last week, causing great damage to
the shipping schooners. The Maine,
J. F. Joy, George Sherman and Alva
Bradley are already reported as wrecked
during the gale. The crews of all we're
saved.
Archibald Forbes, the famous war cor
respondent of the London Daily News,
reached New York on the Alaska, last
week. He is in very poor health. All
his engagements to lecture have been
Cancelled. He is going to Washington to
try and recover his health.
| It is learned that at the inter
provincial conference, at Quebec, Friday,
Premier Norquay, of Manitoba, protested
against the federal governments dis
allowing the Red River railroad bill, and
that his protest received the universal in
| dOrSement OF the conference.
A masked highwayman halted stage
coach near Redding, CAL, last Saturday
night, and when the stage horses became
frightened and started to run the robbe1
fred, killing passenger named 7. T.
Henderson, prominent citizen of Adm
Cal. Armed parties are out in search OF
the robber.
The ship George Curtis, which left
Philadelphia the same day in May last
as that on which the ships Charmer and
Seminole left New York, arrived at San
Francisco last Friday. The trip was
made in 1852 days, the Curtis arriving sew
en- days behind the Seminole and seven
teen days behind the Charmer.
Subscriptions have been raised by the
citizens of San Diego, Cal, for the EN-.
ployment of three extra clerks in the
postoffice. For several weeks mail mat
ter of every description has been accum-
ulating and the force Of clerks on hand
is not sufficient to distribute it. The de-
partment has been applied to for relief
but the postmaster has received no assist
ance as yet.
i The Tortilita silver mines, of Arizona
lately extensively advertised throughout
the east, have been exposed as a fraud
The New York Herald some time age
sent mining engineer out to inspect the
property, who reports that the mines
merely consist of prospect holes anC
barely pay the wages of thirteen men. Il
is shown the mines have been failure
from the start.
Cowboys from the range of the Azte<
cattle company, fifty miles south of Hol
brook, Arizona, report trouble with a row
ing band of White Mountain Apache
Indians, who are stealing stock and driv
ing their plunder into the reservation
When pursued, they organize IN lars'
parties and make defiant stand agains
the rangemen. The military promises i
they are captured to deliver them to tn
civil authorities
The managers of the Alpha Oil com
pany, young rival of the Standard com
> pany, have made an assignment. It
capital, with that of branch institutions
was $6,OOO,OOO. Its leading spirits ar
prominent men OF Detroit and Michigan
with sprinkling of Cleveland million
aires. Mayor Thurbur, of Marquette, i
the assignee. The assignment is said t.
be the result of extravagant management
The company had constructed pipe lin
to the Canadian oil fields, built immens
: shops and started bank to conduct it
finances.
. Starr county, along the border of Mex
leo, is in state of terror. Mexican bar
dts ride in gangs through the streets c
a the towns at night, and the officers OF th
law dare not show themselves. Satu1
day, . party Of bandits vent to Ri
: Grande City and mailed two letters q
" the postofice, one to Manuel Guerro, {